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Britain's first transgender judge has launched a crowdfunding campaign in support of her bid to bring the UK before the European Court of Human Rights. Dr Victoria McCloud resigned as a Master of the English High Court in 2024, saying she had concluded that it was no longer "possible in a dignified

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The Equality Commission for Northern Ireland is facing a lawsuit for allegedly failing to comply with its obligations towards trans people under EU law and the European Convention on Human Rights. The Good Law Project said it was taking the legal challenge after the Commission advised an employer th

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The Council of Europe's commissioner for human rights, Michael O'Flaherty, has urged the UK to ensure that the rights of trans people are being upheld as he expressed concern about the "current climate". In a statement following a recent visit to the UK, Mr O'Flaherty said trans people "constitute a

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A private member's bill is seeking to introduce a disregard scheme for historic convictions for consensual sexual activity between men prior to the decriminalisation of homosexuality in 1993. Sinn Féin TD Aengus Ó Snodaigh yesterday introduced the Disregard of Historic Offences fo

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The Northern Ireland courts will be asked to rule on the definition of "sex" in equality law after the Equality Commission said there was "significant legal uncertainty" in the wake of a landmark UK Supreme Court ruling with implications for trans rights. The Supreme Court ruled unanimously in April

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Work to develop a new policy document on the management of transgender prisoners is nearing completion, the Irish Prison Service has said. A spokesperson for the prison service told Irish Legal News that it was engaging with internal stakeholders on practical matters ahead of the finalisation of the

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The governments of Ireland and 16 other EU countries have called on the European Commission to take action against Hungary if it refuses to scrap anti-LGBT+ laws including a ban on Pride marches. The Irish government previously condemned Hungarian legislation passed in March which makes it a cr

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An Irish lawyer has welcomed an Italian court ruling that women in same-sex relationships who conceive children abroad through IVF should both be named as mothers on their children's birth certificates. Italy's Constitutional Court yesterday ruled that it was discriminatory not to include the names

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The Equality Commission for Northern Ireland has said it is developing new guidance for employers and service providers following a UK Supreme Court ruling on the definition of "woman" in British equality law. The UK's top court ruled earlier this month that the term "woman" as it appears in the Equ

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